Lesson 3: Vowel Harmony

Vowel Harmony is an original and essential characteristic of the Turkish language. It is a matter of logic, it is smooth to the tongue and sweet to the ear. In the previous lesson, I had explained that Turkish was a language of endings. Now, were going to harmonize the vowels of theses endings to the last vowel of the stem word.

There are 2 groups of vowels:

- back vowels = a ı o u

- front vowels = e i ö ü

All the vowels of a words endings must belong to the same vowel group of the last vowel of that word.